[fpc-devel] Missing command line parameters in Linux FPC
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl.fpc-devel at telemetry.co.uk
Wed Mar 17 15:39:38 CET 2010
Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Only options that are valid for the target architecture of the fpc
> binary should be shown, because showing options that are known not to
> work or that don't do anything mainly causes confusion.
What about -an which needs extdebug defined before it works? I'd suggest
that possibly 'fpc' or 'fpc -?' should display the currently-usable set,
but -h which is more likely to be used by people who aren't utter
beginners should display everything with [disabled] annotation where
necessary.
While on this, I'd suggest that minimally-sensible output in response to
--version and --help would be useful since this usage is so common these
days.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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